Phillipps, Michael

PHILLIPPS, Michael, trader, prospector (b 1840, Herefordshire, England; d 22 June 1916, Grasmere). He came to BC in 1863 as an employee of the HBC and was stationed at Fort Kootenai just south of the border in Montana. He relocated to WILD HORSE CRK when the GOLD RUSH began there in 1864, then moved again to Tobacco Plains on the BC–Montana border where he established a private trading post and farm and married a KTUNAXA (Kutenai) woman. In 1873 he became the first white person known to have...

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